Lakland/ Basslines quad coil MM pup crazyness

[NicJimBass]

I bought a Duncan Basslines pup presumably from a Lakland (that's how it was sold to me) and from what I can tell, it's got 4 coils in it: 2 under the B & E strings, 2 under the A, D & G strings. If I remeber correctly, I read that Lakland would wire their Bart pickups so that you could switch to either coil, and still have it be humcancelling, which I'm assuming is what they did here. I've messed with this pup a little, and I dig the sound when it's wired in series. I'm thinking, since I have 4 coils, I could basically wire 2 coils together simlar to the setup on a P-bass, with the top-most coil connected to the bottom-most coil, staggering the pole pieces. I'm thinking of throwing in a TTDP switch so that when it's up or down, it will be a slightly different P-style connection, and in the middle all coils will be on. Does anyone know if this will affect the output? I'd like all the positions to be of the same volume, and I think since both coils will be wired in series, when all 4 (or would it be 2?) are on, it would still hold true. Any thoughts before I start my little experiment?

Nick

[luknfur]

FWIW:

for the P setup you'd need an 8 lead quad - which few of them are. It's probably hard-wired in pairs so you have 4 leads (maybe an additional ground). Even if so nother issue may be polarity. The volume would drop at any rate cause you're only running half the coils, just like if you ran it "single."